After decades of development, Beetle juice is finally getting a legacy sequel — and, improbably, is from its original director and stars, Tim Burton, Michael Keatonand Winona Ryder. When the original film was released in 1988, it became the unlikeliest of hits: a dark comedy about ghosts, death, monsters and a foul-mouthed bio-exorcist (that would be Beetlejuice, played by Keaton) that was pitched to families and even children.Trust me: you’ll never guess what Beetle juice was evaluated.)
Perhaps the improbability of this success is the reason Beetlejuice 2 took more than three decades to get off the ground; it’s terribly difficult to capture lightning in a bottle once; twice is basically impossible. And looking back Beetle juice All these years later, the film (which was written by Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson and Warren Skaaren) holds up as a very funny and truly twisted dark comedy.
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But that’s it — that’s it then dark and then distorted, it’s hard to imagine it being made today. Certainly, if Tim Burton tried to make Beetlejuice 1 now, he would face enormous opposition, if not outright rejection. And even if he did make a sequel to this beloved 80s classic, it was almost guaranteed that the new Beetle juice will have to severely repress certain aspects of the first film (and remove others completely) to appeal to modern audiences and their sensibilities. Here are seven examples of Beetle juice what definitely will not appear in Beetlejuice 2…
Jokes in the original Beetle juice This won’t fly in the sequel
These jokes made Beetle juice in a comedy classic. But times have changed since the original film was released…
Beetlejuice 2 is scheduled to hit theaters on September 6, 2024.
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